1. 13 April 2015: (5 th Period) Pick up an EOC practice and begin reading and annotating. We will discuss this in 10 minutes! Be ready! Today’s Agenda: 1.EOC Practice - What to Expect for the Constructed and Extended-Writing Responses 2.USATestPrep Update! 3.POETRY!!! HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! Today’s Agenda: 1.EOC Practice - What to Expect for the Constructed and Extended-Writing Responses 2.USATestPrep Update! 3.POETRY!!! HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "maggie and milly and molly and may". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! Today’s Agenda: 1.EOC Practice - What to Expect for the Constructed and Extended-Writing Responses 2.USATestPrep Update! 3.POETRY!!! HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "maggie and milly and molly and may". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!

2. 13 April 2015: (7 th Period) Take out the EOC practice from last week and review your annotations. We will discuss this in five minutes! Be ready! Today’s Agenda: 1.EOC Practice - What to Expect for the Constructed and Extended-Writing Responses 2.USATestPrep Update! 3.POETRY!!! HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "maggie and milly and molly and may". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!

8. 14 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “maggie and milly and molly and may” 2.Poetry: What to Do and How to Do It HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate “Out, Out--" and “Oranges". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! Get your poems out, and with those around you, debate the true meaning of each poem and determine what they have in common, topically and otherwise.

9. 15 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “maggie and milly and molly and may” 2.Poetry: What to Do and How to Do It HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate “Out, Out--" and “Oranges". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! What is cummings’s message in “maggie and milly and molly and may”? How do you know this?

10. 16 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “maggie and milly and molly and may” 2.“Out, Out—” and “Oranges” HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate “Out, Out--" and “Oranges". Determine what the poems say (literal) and what they mean (figurative). Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! What kind of person is molly? What type of person is may? And, which one of them are you most like?

11. 17 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 2.“Out, Out—” and “Oranges” HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate FOUR POEMS from the Poetry folder that is posted online! Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! What do the stanzas about the “free bird” provide the reader with? What would the poem lack if they were gone?

12. 17 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 2.“Out, Out—” and “Oranges” HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate FOUR POEMS from the Poetry folder that is posted online! Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! How does the focus on the “caged bird” change the message of the poem?

13. 17 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 2.“Out, Out—” and “Oranges” HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate FOUR POEMS from the Poetry folder that is posted online! Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! What do the first two poems that we have studied have in common?

14. 17 April 2015: Today’s Agenda: 1.“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 2.“Out, Out—” and “Oranges” HMWK: Online SAT (or ACT) review on USATestPrep: Week #8 Read and annotate FOUR POEMS from the Poetry folder that is posted online! Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word! Why are such veiled pieces of advice either more or less effective as these poems present them?